Attempted Attack Investigation | Suspicion: Terrorist Planned to Crash Plane in Israel
- Israel is investigating whether a FlyDubai co-pilot tried to hijack a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv and crash it in Israel.
- The flight carried 180 passengers and diverted toward Saudi Arabia after sending emergency signals.
- Passenger Yaniv Hayun reportedly helped restrain the alleged attacker and regain control of the aircraft.
- Captain Smit Machchhar was reportedly stable after being stabbed.
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"I talked to Bibi for a long time" about the plane crash. Donald Trump said so in the Oval Office. "Perhaps the pilot was a terrorist or a madman." "It's an incredible story," he said again. (ANSA). (ANSA)
The Embassy of Israel in Ecuador highlighted the actions of the passengers and warned that the attack also sought to affect links with UAE
Israel investigating '9/11-style plot' to crash passenger jet into skyscraper
Israel is investigating a "9/11-style plot" to crash a passenger jet into a skyscraper. A FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv with 180 passengers diverted earlier today over Jordanian airspace towards Saudi Arabia after transmitting emergency signals.Israeli authorities scrambled to deploy fighter jets amid concerns the aircraft could have been hijacked after an altercation in the cockpit involving the pilot, understood to be an Omani nationa…
The Israeli Foreign Ministry described the incident on the Flydubai flight as a “terrorist act” and informed its diplomats that the attack was aimed “at undermining relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.” It was “an attempted terrorist attack targeting Israelis, the United Arab Emirates and the Abraham Accords,” the ministry’s director general, Eden Bar Tal, said during an online briefing of “Israeli ambassadors and heads of dipl…
The co-pilot stabbed the captain before the passenger plane plunged to the ground. The target may have been a September 11-style attack, according to Israeli sources. “It is a jihadist terror attempt,” says Defense Minister Israel Katz.
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